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A moderator updated the link to the original source (from https://www.businessinsider.com.au/jack-poulson-ex-google-sa...), which is standard practice (mentioned in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Sorry, we usually post about this right away but sometimes there's a bit of lag.

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Thanks for the update. I'll admit to not reading the guidelines closely until now, but since they don't actually outline a list of websites considered 'non-original', this does essentially mean that HN can apparently shift comments you make for any arbitrary URL to another, and you have no way to know beforehand.

Sorry, I don't mean to sound irritable, but attaching my comments to an article I didn't intend is way too close to putting words in my mouth.

A list of sites doesn't make a whole lot of sense IMO because they regularly borrow reports from each other, and the list will always be incomplete. The key in this case was this line, which links to the Times article:

> In comments reported on Saturday by The Times of London, Poulson cited as an example of the anti-leak culture an an unnamed senior engineer taking the microphone at an all-hands meeting to yell “F— you leakers” at his colleagues.

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